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Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebook 25, adds significantly to our knowledge

Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebook 25, adds significantly to our knowledge

In the preface to a recent volume of academic essays titled Gramsci In The World, Marxist and formalist literary critic Frederic Jameson argues that, today more than ever, much of Gramsci’s value lies in the ambiguities that his Prison Notebooks, the thirty-three notebooks the Sardinia born communist wrote in prison between 1928 and 1934 under strict surveillance and limited critical sources available to him, necessarily resulted from the unfree physical conditions of the writing.

There is something 1990-ish about what we are going through as a country right now, writes S'thembiso Msomi.

For the Italian Communist, there was no road map for social transformation beyond hands-on, bottom-up activism.